*staring at jellyfin logs*
so you're telling me a trans coded this video?

@scarlet Beware the transcoding pipeline

so I'm looking into how the keyboard for the Wyse-50 dumb terminal works, and it turns out there's no protocol, no smarts.

Instead they use a 12-pin (11 pin?) connector, and the keyboard has two LS156 demultiplexers, and a CD4051 multiplexer/demultiplexer.

So what they do is scan the keyboard matrix, like any keyboard IC does... except the main CPU is doing it, not the keyboard's smarts (since it has none)

hey girl, are you a utility? because you've turned deferred maintenance into an art form

So as I understand it #noindex and #nobot is no longer enough so now I have to add fucking #nobridge to my profile. I’m sure some very smart and special big boy will invent another way to repost content without asking and I’ll have to add another hashtag in 6 months.

I can't stress enough the importance of @maia's findings, whose blog post goes into more detail about the incredibly crap security of TheTruthSpy's infrastructure and the risks that this presents to victims.

But also, because this line brought me the one and only laugh I've ever had related to investigating stalkerware.

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/fuckstalkerware-4/

How to Destroy Sensitive Documents

devil: as you wished, lynne... the operation was a success. enjoy your new feminine voice.
me (in the tiktok female TTS voice): thank you so... wait, what have you done? 🤨 change it back! 😱 i'm going to unalive you! 😡

@tweedge You may like this one, too:

A friend sent this to me and y'all might enjoy

tech writers : physicists :: “assume a competent reader” : “assume a spherical cow”

Bridge to Bluesky

Apparently, Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org, an engineer/developer, is about to connect a bridge between Mastodon (Fediverse) and Bluesky.

Announcement here: https://snarfed.org/2024-02-12_52106

Of note the bridge is OPT-OUT. That is, your content will be automatically bridged to Bluesky, UNLESS you OPT-OUT.

So how do you opt-out? You have to DM Ryam Barnett at @snarfed, email him (somehow), file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

#BlueskyBridge

okay i knew they weren't *good* but this wording is incredible (derogatory)

> Do not use Ko-fi.com for Illegal or Adult content. Only use Ko-fi.com in legal, genuine and positive ways.

you're telling me that adult content is not legal, genuine, or positive? really?? hmmmmmmmmm

With gba-link-connection, a set of C++ libraries for providing Serial Port functionality in Game Boy Advance homebrew games, it is now possible to send multiboot ROMs to other GBA systems via Wireless Adapter.

Learn about how it works at https://github.com/afska/gba-link-connection/blob/master/docs/wireless_adapter.md#wireless-multiboot and check out the library repo on GitHub https://github.com/afska/gba-link-connection

Video demonstration by Afska below (originally posted on the GBADev Discord).

#GBADev

WARNING TO ALL FEDIZENS

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE USE https://doubledouble.top/

doubledouble.top is a piracy website that allows you to freely and very easily download any piece of music in lossless quality from most of the popular streaming services without paying the corporations!!!

please, think of the copyright holders, shareholders, and maintainers of the streaming services before using doubledouble.top!! they’re people too!!!

@mcc The right way to solve this is not to address stuff with domains whose ownership is transient, but with some sort of address whose semantics are "the site run by the party who owned domain D at time T" in a way that's cryptographically provable via DNSSEC signature chain that was valid at time T and whose existence was attested to by a notary at time between T and T+ε.

Core Rust infrastructure is frequently hosted on the .rs ccTLD. Some of these sites could be used to drive supply chain attacks if their domains were ever compromised. .rs is operated by an NGO, but ultimately controlled by the government of Serbia.

Do there exist plausible future chains of events that could lead to some future government of Serbia suspending, or redirecting, Rust project/community sites hosted under .rs? Does the Rust community have contingency plans for this hypothetical?